REACQUIRING Synonyms: 18 Similar and Opposite Words

reacquiring

verb

present participle of reacquire

as in retrieving

to get again in one's possession the hockey team is hoping to reacquire the Stanley Cup this year

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Reading data from the cache is faster than retrieving it from main memory, and the agents used this timing difference to communicate.

— Emma Roth, The Verge, 23 Oct. 2026
According to the criminal complaint, the woman called police for help retrieving belongings from a friend's house.

— Shelley Bortz, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026

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New London officials are eagerly endorsing Spinnaker Real Estate Partners’ proposal as a way to draw some of the thousands of new employees being hired by nearby Electric Boat while recapturing a stretch of attractive waterfront at the marina.

— Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 16 Sep. 2026
As opposed to infantile regression, the oceanic feeling can also be understood as a means of recapturing a repressed sense of relation, connection, affinities.

— George Baker, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026

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Tank Dell had one reception for 43 yards and returned a punt for 14 yards in his return after missing almost two years recovering from a gruesome knee injury.

— ABC News, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026
Hardy has spent the season recovering from a gunshot wound in his left leg.

— PJ Green October 25, Kansas City Star, 25 Oct. 2026

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Dad alone of his siblings had joined my grandfather in reclaiming the Liu name back in China.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Oct. 2026
Kansas Senate President Ty Masterson’s path to reclaiming the governor’s mansion for Republicans almost certainly doesn’t run through Kansas City, Kansas.

— Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 23 Oct. 2026

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